What comes to your mind when someone says, “Live simple”?
The first image that pops into my head is a
monastery in some isolated mountain range.
It is surrounded by green foliage and has about a millions steps that
you have to climb to get there.
As you know I have been trying to adopt a more frugal
lifestyle and it is hard. I am one to
expect 100% success from the beginning and this is not falling into that preconceived concept.
Not at all.
I have noticed that I have been living in a “need” mode for
a very, very long time. Recently my
husband came to me and told me that he wanted this camper. He began talking about how he could add it to
an existing loan or sell his car.
For a millisecond
I was on board and then I thought, “WTH Amy?!
There is no way you can afford this.
NO FRICKIN WAY!”
We have way too
many payments and are still getting caught up on bills that fell by the wayside
when we were laid off. The responsible thing to do is set aside money until we have
an amount that will buy a reasonably priced camper. While setting this money aside we need to
work on paying off the loans and getting caught up on bills.
This sucks.
Like
majorly.
It sucks because I want it
now. My brain tells me I NEED IT NOW!
What has happened that I feel this way? Was I raised this way and if I was just think
about what I am doing to my kids. It has
to stop. It has to. I can shop frugally all day long but if I am
not changing the big things then I am doing it all for nothing. It has to be a packaged deal or it’s
worthless.
So now it’s time to start applying a few other frugal habits
to my life. Time to suck it up and play
hardball.
Man being a grownup really stinks.
Check out this title. She has a lot of good information.
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